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The Federal Housing Finance Agency, the government entity responsible for regulating America’s multi-trillion-dollar secondary mortgage market, is reportedly easing its opposition to local programs that allow homeowners to pay for renewable energy and efficiency retrofits through their property taxes. That’s according to a report from Asset-Backed Alert, an industry publication that covers securities markets. The publication reports that the Federal

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Littelfuse, Inc. IGBT Power Modules are available in a broader range of package designs, now including half-bridge, six-pack, and PIM modules in S, D, H, W, and WB packages, with ratings up to 1700V and 450A. These modules offer the high efficiency and fast switching speeds of modern IGBT technology in a robust and flexible format. In addition to the

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NIC Components Corp. announced the addition of NCLP series metal strip current sensing resistors to its expanded offering of SMT resistive products. NCLP series utilizes multiple metal constructions (Ni-Cr, Mn-Cu and Fe-Al-Cr) for low thermal EMF performance and stable TCR of +75ppm / degree C. Offered in resistance value range of 1mΩ to 500mΩ (0.001 to 0.500 Ohm) in 1%,

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Efficient Power Conversion Corporation (EPC) announces the EPC2105, 80 V enhancement-mode monolithic GaN transistor half-bridge. By integrating two eGaN® power FETs into a single device, interconnect inductances and the interstitial space needed on the PCB are eliminated. This increases both efficiency (especially at higher frequencies) and power density, while reducing assembly costs to the end user’s power conversion system. The

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As more and more high performance electronics are utilized across a wide range of applications, it has stimulated a growing need to provide new innovative thermal materials that can effectively manage the heat dissipation challenges. In line with this need Parker Chomerics is constantly evolving its range of THERM-A-GAP™ thermally conductive dispensing gels in order that customers can maintain both

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XP Power announced what it believes to be one of the first 5-Watt plug top power supplies to comply with the new Energy Star level VI energy efficiency standard. A requirement for all such external power supplies in use from February 2016, the VEL05 and VER05 series meet the standard’s no load input power requirement of <0.1 Watt. Introduced in

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Nidec Corporation today announced that the Nidec Research and Development Center has developed a motor-drive system based on an SiC inverter. The Nidec Research and Development Center has succeeded in making a concept model of a drive system using a magnet-less motor with a SiC based inverter, by applying the above drive technology to an SR motor (switched reluctance motor)

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In 2005 Procter & Gamble acquired Duracell, which is the current global battery market leader, as part of a $50bn acquisition of Gillette. In exchange for a recapitalized Duracell company, which will include approximately $1.7 billion in cash at closing, P&G will receive shares of P&G’s common stock currently held by Berkshire Hathaway having a current value of approximately $4.7

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It’s analyst day at solar manufacturer and project developer SunPower. We’ll be tuning in throughout the morning — but here are a few of today’s announcements, along with the firm’s guidance. SunPower will be tripling its capacity over the next five years CEO Tom Werner just announced that SunPower intends to triple its upstream solar manufacturing capacity over the next

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This year’s international “Science Award Electrochemistry” was recently awarded by Volkswagen and BASF to Dr Vanessa Wood, of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zürich), for her work with lithium-ion battery technology. Dr Wood was chosen specifically owing to her work analyzing the way that the microstructures of electrodes influence the efficiency of lithium-ion batteries. As part of this

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